Olympics A Human Right?

Culture
September 2nd, 2015 9:32 AM
It seems as though the “Chi-coms” have found a new right “enumerated in the penumbras” of human history. The right to snowboard.

AP Report on Hillary's Emails Ignores Judge's Order, Reuters Bombshell

August 21st, 2015 4:16 PM
The time stamp on an Associated Press report on Hillary Clinton's email "worries" ("CLINTON FACING FRESH WORRIES IN CONGRESS OVER EMAILS") by Ken Thomas and Julie Bykowicz this morning is 11:21 a.m. Eastern Time. Despite that time stamp, the report fails to mention a bombshell report from Reuters ("Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest") originally posted at…

Reuters Uses Push Poll To Warn GOP on Opposing Planned Parenthood

August 19th, 2015 5:20 PM
While critics of Planned Parenthood might wonder how the nation’s largest abortion provider is going to dig out from a video about cutting through baby faces to sell brains, the Reuters wire service is happy to help dig the abortion advocates out. Their story on Wednesday was headlined “Americans back federal funds for Planned Parenthood health services: poll”. Planned Parenthood boss Cecile…

AP, Reuters Ignore Likely Impact of Bloated Inventories on Growth

August 11th, 2015 3:31 PM
Two wire service dispatches covering the government's June Wholesale Sales and Inventories release either glossed over or completely ignored what others are saying about the report's impact on near-term economic growth. The final sentence of an unbylined Reuters report vaguely referred to future impact by indicating that current inventory balances, which are bloated by historical standards, "…

Press Downplays, Hides EPA's Responsibility for River Contamination

August 9th, 2015 10:25 AM
On Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency committed an act which would have likely become instant national news if a private entity had done the same thing. On Friday, John Merline at Investors' Business Daily succinctly noted that the EPA "dumped a million gallons of mine waste into Animas River in Colorado, turning it into what looked like Tang, forcing the sheriff's office to…
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Reporter: Can Obama Stop U.S. Hunters From Killing Animals Like Cecil?

July 29th, 2015 8:20 PM
During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Julia Edwards -- a reporter for the Reuters news service -- asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest if President Barack Obama would respond to the “growing outcry” over the killing of Cecil, a well-loved lion in a Zimbabwe park that was hunted down by Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer. “Is the White House or is President Obama aware of this killing…

AP Fails to Note That Consumer Confidence Drop Is Worst in Four Years

July 28th, 2015 6:08 PM
The Conference Board's July Consumer Confidence report released earlier today threw a heavy dose of cold water on the idea that the economy might finally achieve a broad-based, genuine recovery this year. Despite month after month of "all is well" reporting — and excuse-making when all hasn't been well — from the U.S. business press, the American public has apparently finally figured out that…

New-Home Sales 'Unexpectedly' Dive; AP Says They're Just 'Not As Hot'

July 24th, 2015 6:48 PM
Thanks to year-over-year declines in manufacturing orders, manufacturing shipments, and wholesale sales, along with bloated inventories, apologists for the current condition of the U.S. economy are down to three defenses supposedly demonstrating that all is still really well after yet another rough first quarter (once again excused away as due to supposedly historically awful winter weather).…

AP, Reuters Fail to Connect Latest A&P Bankruptcy to Its Unions

July 20th, 2015 6:54 PM
The company officially known as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in five years. This time around, the storied "A&P" name may completely disappear. Coverage at USA Today by Nathan Bomey notes that "About 93% (of its workers) are represented by one of 12 different unions, and many of them have bumping rights that the company has described as…

AP Fails to Note Falling Shipments to Explain Flat Manufacturing

July 15th, 2015 11:44 PM
The serious sales slumps combined with inventory buildups in manufacturing and wholesale industries, documented in previous NewsBusters posts, continues. So does the establishment press's determination to ignore them. At the Associated Press today, Christopher Rugaber was tasked to cover the Federal Reserve's June release on Industrial Production. The good news is that the Fed report showed an…
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Reuters: June Job Gains (Virtually All in Services) Were 'Broad-Based'

July 3rd, 2015 10:52 PM
The folks at Reuters issued a pretty sloppy video yesterday relating to the government's June jobs report. That videos described yesterday's reported jobs gains of 223,000 as "broad-based." That's true only if you think having 222,000 of yeaterday's those seasonally adjusted gains occurring in service industries, while only 1,000 were seen in goods-producing industries, is "broad-based":

NPR Calls Hillary's 'All Lives Matter' Statement a '3-Word Misstep'

June 24th, 2015 10:56 PM
The politically correct speech police are everywhere these days. Many members of the leftist establishment have taken it upon themselves to aid in their enforcement efforts. No one is safe — not even the person they want us to believe is destined to be the Democrats' 2016 presidential nominee. Yesterday, at a Florissant, Missouri church only five miles from Ferguson, Hillary Clinton uttered the…

Reuters: 'Climate Apocalypse' Could Wipe Out Humans in 100 Years

June 19th, 2015 12:34 PM
Although labeled as “The Great Debate,” a Reuters story about the necessity of drastic change to avert “the climate apocalypse that has already begun” was anything but a debate. Slate Magazine’s Bitwise tech columnist David Auerbach wrote that June 18 Reuters column with the dramatic headline: “A child born today may live to see humanity’s end, unless…” He promoted Australian microbiologist…

Business Press Mostly Fails to Note Protracted Fall in Production

June 15th, 2015 2:06 PM
Today's release from the Federal Reserve on industrial production (including mining and utilities) told us that it declined by a seasonally adjusted 0.2 percent in May. It was the sixth consecutive month showing a decline or no gain, during which time output has fallen by 1.1 percent (not annualized). Bloomberg News, which reported that economists and analysts expected an increase of 0.2 percent…